{"id":22212,"date":"2021-07-16T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/?p=22212"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T08:23:23","slug":"bot-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/technology\/bot-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Large amount of access from bot traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"bogo-language-switcher list-view\"><li class=\"en-US en current first\"><span class=\"bogoflags bogoflags-us\"><\/span> <span class=\"bogo-language-name\"><a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/\" title=\"English\" class=\"current\" aria-current=\"page\">English<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"ja last\"><span class=\"bogoflags bogoflags-jp\"><\/span> <span class=\"bogo-language-name\"><a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ja\" href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/\" 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baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69dff69517c0b\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/technology\/bot-traffic\/#bot_traffic\" >bot traffic<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/technology\/bot-traffic\/#access_source\" >access source<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/technology\/bot-traffic\/#Other_Information\" >Other Information<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/technology\/bot-traffic\/#Objective\" >Objective<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"bot_traffic\"><\/span>bot traffic<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this article because there was a large amount of bot traffic on this site between midnight of February 1, 2021 and early morning of February 2, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One morning, I noticed a large number of sessions on Google Analytics Integration for WordPress (GAinWP), which is displayed on the dashboard of the WordPress admin panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a class=\"r_image\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-01.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-01.png?resize=579%2C621&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Google Analytics Page View\" class=\"wp-image-22215\" width=\"579\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-01.png?w=772&amp;ssl=1 772w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-01.png?resize=280%2C300&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-01.png?resize=768%2C824&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For a moment, I thought that some article might have buzzed, but even so, the number of PVs was outstanding and the figures were abnormal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I checked the page with Google Analytics, and found that the page \/bot-traffic.icu was getting a lot of access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behavior -&gt; Site Content -&gt; All Pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a class=\"\u3000r_image\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?resize=768%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Google Analytics Page View\" class=\"wp-image-22274\" width=\"768\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?resize=1024%2C481&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?resize=300%2C141&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?resize=768%2C360&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?resize=1536%2C721&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?resize=520%2C245&amp;ssl=1 520w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-05.png?w=1890&amp;ssl=1 1890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the article with this URL does not exist in this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I actually try to access it, I get a 404 page not found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a class=\"r_image\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-03.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-03.png?resize=758%2C625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"404 Page Not Found Error\" class=\"wp-image-22257\" width=\"758\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-03.png?w=1010&amp;ssl=1 1010w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-03.png?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-03.png?resize=768%2C633&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"access_source\"><\/span>access source<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I used Google Analytics to check the access source by region, and it seems that there is more than one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not set is the most common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hangzhou: China<\/li><li>Beijing: China<\/li><li>Dhaka: Bangladesh<\/li><li>Lagos: Nigeria<\/li><li>Shanghai: China<\/li><li>Jakarta: Indonesia<\/li><li>Chengdu: China<\/li><li>Zhuhai: China<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a wide variety of them, mainly in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a class=\"r_image\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?resize=768%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"By City\" class=\"wp-image-22277\" width=\"768\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?resize=1024%2C478&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?resize=300%2C140&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?resize=768%2C358&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?resize=1536%2C717&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-en-06.png?w=1896&amp;ssl=1 1896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The OS and browsers were all different, so it is likely that there was actually a large amount of access from terminals in multiple locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_Information\"><\/span>Other Information<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I searched for some information on bot-traffic.icu and found a few foreign blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that there are several sites that have suffered from the same problem in the past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the sites set up filters in Google Analytics because they didn&#8217;t want to see abnormal aggregate results, but I didn&#8217;t set up filters because it&#8217;s not a fundamental solution and I didn&#8217;t want to lose track of it when accesses occur again in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, according to the information on foreign blogs, the page to be accessed changes from time to time, so I felt it was a weasel word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Objective\"><\/span>Objective<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the purpose of this bot is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the logs, it didn&#8217;t try to hack, it just repeatedly accessed the same (non-existent) page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I accessed \/bot-traffic.icu, I was redirected to the following site (I won&#8217;t link to it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a class=\"r_image\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?resize=768%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bot traffic\" class=\"wp-image-19361\" width=\"768\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?resize=1024%2C464&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?resize=300%2C136&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?resize=768%2C348&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?resize=1536%2C696&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.souichi.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/bot-traffic-05.png?w=1886&amp;ssl=1 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems to be a site where people pay to buy traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems to be a demonstration that &#8220;we can increase your traffic with bot traffic&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going to take advantage of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may increase PV, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that people are actually reading the page, so it&#8217;s not good for SEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I find a fundamental solution, I&#8217;ll write about it separately.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"postscript_balloon\">May 11, 2021 Postscript<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In addition to the above page, there was a large amount of access to bottraffic999.xyz yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The destination is the same page as last time, and it seems that they are changing the destination address periodically to avoid filtering.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"postscript_balloon\">July 17, 2021 Postscript<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I set up a .htaccess file to prohibit access to bot traffic that accesses my site with slightly different referrers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.souichi.club\/en\/seo\/htaccess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refer to this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"postscript_balloon\">Finally.<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I hope this article will be useful to someone 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